Friday, January 17th, 2014
A security breach that yielded Neiman Marcus customers' payment card information went undetected for nearly six months, according a report in the New York Times.
The upscale department store revealed Friday that hackers may have stolen customers' credit and debit card information during an intrusion it detected in mid-December, but sources told the Times ...
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Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
Researchers warn that a new threat, using harder-to-crack encryption methods than comparable ransomware, may hit the black market soon.
The malware, which locks users out of their computer until they pay a ransom, is being called Prison Locker and Power Locker on underground forums, according to a Friday blog post at Malware Must Die.
According ...
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Sunday, January 5th, 2014
Yahoo.com visitors over the last few days may have been served with malware via the Yahoo ad network, according to a security firm in the Netherlands. Users clicking on some of the ads were redirected to sites armed with code that exploits vulnerabilities in Java and installs a variety of different ...
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Thursday, December 19th, 2013
On Wednesday, security vendor Seculert reported finding that one of five malware types used in the attack had a unique cloaking property for evading sandboxes. The company called the malware DGA.Changer.
DGA.Changer's only purpose was to download other malware onto infected computers, Aviv Raff, chief technology officer for Seculert, said on ...
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Attackers are compromising Linux and Windows systems to install a new malware program designed for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to researchers from the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska).
The malware was found by the Polish CERT at the beginning of December and the Linux version is being ...
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